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Angry mom beats son to “teach him manners’

Date Posted: 2010-09-30

A 36-year-old Okinawa City woman is under arrest, charged with abuse for beating her young teenage son because he made her angry.

The woman told police, who were summoned to her home by neighbors who called the emergency number to report “the neighbor’s boy is being abused by his mother”, that her son “used my computer without asking me. He didn’t listen to me, so I was teaching manners to him.”

The 13-year-old victim was beaten on the arm and neck, and had cut marks on his arms when he was taken to a hospital for treatment. The mother admitted taking the boy by the neck, “swinging him around several times. The boy is now in protective custody at a Children’s Center. The police is investigating the mother to determine if the abuse was continuous or an isolated incident.